Award news
The East Coast Music Awards (ECMA), the largest annual event on Atlantic Canada's music calendar, and its festival/conference will be held May 1-5 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. is. Topping the list of candidates is the local favorite team, the East Pointers, with seven candidates, followed by Jen Grant (NS) and Tim Baker (NL) with six candidates each, and Jimmy Rankin ( CB) and Neon Dreams (NS) each have four names. The complete list can be found here.
The awards ceremony will be held on May 2 at the Delta Prince Edward Confederation Ballroom and will be co-hosted by renowned singer-songwriter Rose Cousins and musician and CBC music host Damnight Doyle. The show will include performances by the East Pointers, Tara McClain, Lamb Ragged, Morgan Toney, Maggie Andrew, Tim Baker, KAYO, Jen Grant, Emily Landry and Renee Gallant.
festival news
– Westword Music Festival, which will be held at multiple Vancouver venues from June 22 to 23, has announced its 2024 lineup. Headliners include L.A. dream rockers Cherry Glazer and prominent Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins, while the Canadian side includes Polaris Prize winner Debbie Friday, NOBRO, Kartal Madras, and Corridor. , Hayley Blais, Winona Forever, and 2024 Elevate Music Project winner Temia. This festival is produced by MRG. Click here for tickets.
– Noisemakers has announced the lineup for Music in the Garden, a four-part outdoor concert series at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario. The full CanCon cast includes Jesse Cook (July 3), Dwayne Gretzky (July 18), Donovan Woods & Hayden Desser (July 25), and Broken Social Scene (8 8 days of the month). Tickets are currently on sale here.
industry news
– July Tork and Lindsay Ell have been added to the SiriusXM Concert Series component of the RBC Canadian Open. Golf Canada has announced that July Talk will perform as the opening act for Our Lady Peace on Friday, May 31st. Elle will join fellow Canadian country star Josh Ross on June 1st at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. Learn more about.
– Canadian-based management and production company Workshop Music Group has entered into a new partnership with talent representation company The Family to co-manage up-and-coming young country singer-songwriter Owen Riegling. It was announced that the agreement had been concluded. The Family's client roster includes Machine Gun Kelly and Avril Lavigne, and it recently launched a country music division.
Riekling, who currently has over 50 million global streams of his music, won CanCountry's mega-event Boots & Hearts' 2022 Emerging Artist Showcase and secured a record deal with Universal Music Canada. I tied it. Last year, he was selected for Apple Music's UpNext program, and now he is part of Spotify's Rising Rising Artists 2024 and Amazon's Canada's Breakthrough Artists to Watch 2024. Read more about Riegling and his Canadian small-town tour this month in Billboard's latest coverage of his Canada.
– Music industry luminaries who traveled from Toronto (and beyond) to Hamilton’s Theater Aquarius to attend Friday night’s world premiere of “Beautiful Scars,” a musical based on Tom Wilson’s memoir. The list of people and musicians is impressive. . former and current record label presidents Steve Cain, Dennis Donlon and Shauna de Cartier, broadcasters Jeff Woods, Toronto Mic'd and Dave Hodge (from nearby Ancaster), promoter Yvonne Massell; and a variety of music journalists included, a testament to Wilson's respect. In that community. So far, media reviews and social media comments for the play have been almost unanimously positive. Read Billboard Canada's feature on the play here.
– CIMA (Canadian Independent Music Association) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications to participate in the Canada House event and other activities to be held at the Reeperbahn Festival in Germany in September. To be considered for a showcase spot at Canada House, the deadline to apply here is May 31st. The festival will be held in Hamburg from September 16th to 21st, with a possible pre-event in Berlin.
artist news
– Gene Champagne is a popular figure on the Hamilton rock scene as the drummer for Teenage Head and the Killjoys. He also sings and plays guitar in his own power-pop-accented band, and just released his new EP, Let's Jet. It kicks off with a record release show at Hamilton's Corktown Tavern on June 29th, supported by Dave Pomfret and the Jesse James Medicine Show. Click here for advance tickets. Check out the record on Bandcamp here.
– Ken Tizzard & Music For Goats’ new album, The Dagg Sessions, is out and the band will be presenting it with two shows. They will perform a set of the entire album and old favorites at Toronto's Cameron House on May 3rd. The fee to appear on the show is from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be a local Campbellford show at the Royal Canadian on May 10th. Legion Branch 103. Buy tickets here. Of note: Music For Goats is Watchmen bassist Tizard's solo project. Here is the group's new video.
– Montreal alternative pop artist Laloux releases new album Quarter Life Crisis (Bravo Music) on May 3rd. The album will be released on May 2nd with a hometown show at Bar Le Ritz, followed by gigs in Gatineau, Toronto and St. Therese. . Click here for details.
–B.C.-born veteran singer-songwriter John Gogo will soon release his sixth album, Western Balladeer, and the first lead single and video, “Larry’s Grandad,” have been released to positive reviews. I am making money.
– Manitoba-based husband-and-wife folk duo Burnstick were nominated for a Juno Award in 2019 for their debut album Kîyânaw and won a Canadian Folk Music Award for one of their singles. The BC tour will run for 11 dates from May 5th to May 17th in support of her new single. All tickets can be purchased here. A new single (below) has been released.
– Renowned Canadian pianist Kristina Petrovska Chirico will release her latest CD, “Games of the Night Wind,” on May 15th at 7:30pm at CMC, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto. Admission is free, but RSVP is required. https: //.cm on. Look forward to new music by David Yeager (Nocturne) and works by his 20th century composers. Petrovska Chirico will also perform a solo piano recital at the conference/concert series “Worlds Apart: Music, Nostalgia and Absence in Canada's Diasporic Communitiessince 1945” on May 25th at Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Here is the link for the full program and tickets.
– The duo of Margaret Maria and Tolleson is built around Maria’s cello playing and Tolleson’s vocals. These elements come together beautifully in this cover of Gordon Lightfoot's classic “Song for a Winter's Night.” It may be out of season now, but it's well worth a listen. On May 1 at 2 p.m., the two will perform a short tribute set to Lightfoot at St. Paul's United Church in Orillia.